10/06/2026
Meet Bud!
Casual, cool and seriously creative, Bud Thomas is one of the talented minds behind the work at FMS.
As a Senior Art Director, Bud has a knack for taking the ideas, goals and purpose behind a project and turning them into smart, high-level design concepts that are as functional as they are beautiful. But what we love most about Bud is that the creativity doesn’t stop when the assignment does.
Case in point: When a handful of T-shirt designs didn’t make the final cut for this year’s ABA Bank Marketing Conference, Bud didn’t let the ideas go to waste. He turned them into a collection of fun pins and buttons for our team to hand out instead. That’s Bud—scrappy, resourceful and always finding a creative way to make a good idea work.
And there’s plenty more to Bud than great design.
🌶️ He has 7 bottles of hot sauce in his fridge.
🎧 He logged 68,000 minutes of Spotify last year.
📚 He read 24 books that same year.
🏋️ He can clean and jerk 225 pounds.
🏓 And if this whole design thing didn’t work out? Semi-professional pickleball was apparently the backup plan.
We’re incredibly fortunate to have Bud on the FMS team—not only for the creativity and perspective he brings to the work, but for the energy, ingenuity and “what if we tried this?” thinking he brings along with it.
Drop a 👋🏻 and help us say hello to Bud!
